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10 article(s) for November 2015

New Caledonia is a biodiversity hotspot, with a high number of endemic species, many of which living in very small areas. Go to another mountain, or just a few miles to another valley, and you might find a different set of species. Since the early 2000s, Dr Jörn Theuerkauf from the Museum and Instit…

A few days after Thanksgiving dinner, a popular tradition calls for two people to grab opposite ends of a dried wishbone and pull until the bone breaks in two.The irony: The wishbone is special because it's one piece.The furcula (the technical term for a wishbone) is formed by the fusion of two coll…

The Museum’s Health Sciences Department is partnering with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to publish a monthly series on the Museum blog called “Know Health”. The articles focus on current health topics selected by CU’s medical and graduate students in order to provide both Engli…

60 Minutes in Space - October 2015
Ka Chun follows up with a story on the star cluster at the center of our galaxy.Astronomers know that there is a dense cluster of stars orbiting the black hole, Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way. But they have long puzzled as to how this cluster ended …

60 Minutes in Space, October 2015Dimitri’s second story focuses on analysis of data from the original Kepler mission. Citizen scientists and astronomers have been studying the data closely. One star – KIC 8462852 – keeps getting their attention because of its strange, transit-like feature. Dimitri …

The Genetics of Taste Lab was host to the fatty acid taste study from November 2014 to August 2015. In that time we enrolled 1020 Museum guests, ages 8-90, as part of the crowdsourced data collection. The study was a true success in both citizen science and crowdsourcing, AND now that the data hav…

November Sky Calendar (pdf) Highlights this month's sky phenomena and celestial happenings with local dates and times (Mountain time zone). Free sky maps are available at www.skymaps.com.Skymaps.com produces a nice sky chart to help in locating observable celestial objects. Maps for the month ahead…